The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-30

was killed. James Manning, a brake
man on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was
killed at Deans Station, New Jersey,
on the morning of the 23d, while coup
ling cars. He had been only a month
married.
Arthur Mueller, 2 years of age,
died in Chicago on the 22d of hydro
phohia. He was bitten by a dog in a
public garden about five weeks ago, and
his father, in driving away the dog,
was bitten on the thumb. Eli Parks, a
prominent citizen of Charlotte, Mlchi-
gan. was killed by a mad bull on the
morning of the 23d. While hurrying
to see the burning of her sons barns,
neal SmithviIIe, New York, on the
2Sd, Mrs. Helen Wheeler, aged IS
years, fell dead of excitement and heart
disease.
An accommodation train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ran into
an open switch, just after leaving the
station at Pittsburg, on the afternoon
of the oath, and was thrown down a
twelve-foot embankment. The engine.
combination baggage and smoking car
and one passenger "a were wrecked,
and eight persons, including the en-
gineer and fireman, were injured. The
engineer, j. j. Moore, Vas terribly
Scalded and is not expected to recover.
All the passengers injured were six,
who jumped from the train when it left
the tracks. Only two of them are dam
%gerously injured. A young girl named
Kate Gilhooly was rendered uncon.
scious and, it is feared, sustained a
concusslon of the spine. Her sister
Maggie broke a leg, and, 1t is feared,
was Infused internally. II is believed
the switch was opened by some mall
iclous s~coundrels. Moore, the en-
gineer, died al midnight.
"A draft of cars ran into an extra
freight train in the upper yards of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Harrisburg
on the Goth, Jacob Hoffman, a brake.
man, was caught in the wreck and so
badly injured that his right leg had to
be amputated.
Immense damage has been done to
property on the Housatonic and Con-
necticut rivers and their tributaries in
Massachusetts by floods, the result Of
delugIng rain since the 2lst. At and
in the neighborhood of Great Barring
ton twenty-three bridges have been
swept away, besides grlst mills, factor
les and dams. One life was lost.
The fire in st. Paul, Minneapolis,
the evening of the 22d, was confined
20 Burbank's wholesale clothing house.
7lba Minroooto Gpioa ConuapuSC ctnoIy
was heavily damaged by smoke. Bur-
banks loss is 500, 000, that of the spice
company, $4,000, and on the building
$1,000. All the losses are covered by
insurance. st Matthews German
Lutheran Church, in Chicago, was
burned on the 23d. Loss, $4,000.
The Fosterville Bolt and Nut Com
pany's works near Rochester, New
York, were burned on the 23d. Loss,
$50, 900.
Anthony Broski, George Phillips
and Edward Lorber were fatally
burned by an explosion of fire damp
in slope No. / of the Susquehanna
Coal Company, at NanticOke, Penn
sylvania, on the morning of the 25th.
Broski died in about an hour after be-
ing taken to his home. and the Others
were not expected to recover. Four
of the Lorber's brothers perished in the
disaster in the same mine in Decem-
Der. 1895, and among the twenty-six
entombed in the fatal chamber which
has never been reached. The men in
jured used safety lamps. and the gas
was fired by the explosion of a blast.
The Warren Powder Mill, near
Thomaston, Maine. blew up on the
morning of the 25th. George Shcp-
pard, aged 30 years, was killed. While
workmen were grinding bark in the
Tannery, at Lowell. MasSachu-
sets, on the afternoon of the 25th, a
fell and caused an explosion
among tie chemicals. Herbert T. Ber-
land and Daniel O'Hearn were terribly
burned, and O'Hearn is not expected
10 recover.
"A passenger train WAS wrecked by
IN open switch near Hudson, Wiscon-
sin, on the 25th. John Donoboe, engi-
neer, and the fireman, named Webster,
were killed, and another train hand
was injured.
Frederick X. Derne. Is years of
age, was arrested in Chicago, on the
Path, for a robbery committed at Sara
New York. 1t appears that
was one of the attendants who
drew water from the Congress spring,
and that a young widow %sOiourning
1t Saratoga took "A great fancy to HIM.
On the 2Sth OF June, while they were
in a secluded spot, Dorne
ehloroformed the woman, and robbed
her of iewelry and cash a~ggre2ating
$1,000. and then fed. The safe of tie
Colby mine, at Bessemer, Michigan,
was robbed of $4,000 on the evening
Of the 23d. the burglars gaining ad-
mission by the office window. The
23d was pay day, and over $4,000 was
distributed.
-Manuela Ve)asco, a Mexican girl,
l6 years of age, was shot dead by Ca
Villo Gutierrez at Nogales, Arizona,
OH the morning of the 25th. lie says
hat I'm taking the gun from a rack
Ihe hammer caught on something and
weapon was accidentally dis
charged"
"A telegram from Utica. New York,
says Giles Smith, of Deertield, lost
three cows on the 2Oth by bloody muir
He had them buried near "A run
ming stream, which infected the water.
Three cows belonging to William Buds
long, Jr., a neighbor, died OF the dis